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Encampment. Here Likewise Grew a Shrubby Species of Xerotes 110H - 113 - encampment. Here likewise grew a shrubby species of Xerotes 110h hard rush-like leaves, but allied to X.gracilis.4 Mitchell sketched his quandong-like shrub, naming it Ellsalzarr1-.TsAyana. This plant was long known as Fusanusarsicarius, but in recent revisions, Mitchell t s name has been restored, so that the Quandong is now Eualya acuminata and the Bitter Quandong is E.murrayana. Mitchell thus became -the first explorer, apart from Cunningham, a professional botanist, to name and publish, albeit without the traditional Latin description, a native plant. Also on the Murray, he found a very beautiful, new, shrubby species of cassia, with thin papery pods and...the most brillant yellow blossoms...I would name it C.heteroloba.464 Lindley accepted this, and the plant was so named, although it proved to be synonymous with Cassia eremophila which had precedence. Similarly, Mitchell named Pelargonium rodne anum, which would be an acquisition to our gardens. I named it...in honour of Mrs. Riddell Sydney, grand-daughter of the famous Rodney.4-} On this expedition, Mitchell made his usual prophecies concerning the economy of the new country. He felt that the "quandong nut" and "gum 466 acacia may in time, become articles of commerce" and "having brought home specimens of most of the woods of the interior", Mitchell felt that several of the acacias would be valuable for ornamental work, having a pleasing perfume resembling that of a rose. Some are of a dark colour of various shades, and very compact; others light coloured and resembling in texture, box or lancewood...Specimens of these A pods may be seen at Hallets, No. 83, High Holburn.4 Mitchell had the usual hazards of bad weather, difficult terrain and constan- negotiation of rivers to endanger his notes and specimens. He recorded the 463 Mitchell: Three Expeditions, II, pp.100-1. Lindley named this Xerotes effusa, the Scented Mat-rush, now known as Lomandra effusa. 464 Mitchell: Three Expeditions, II, p.122. 465 op.cit., II, p.144. 466 op.cit., II, p.137. Mitchell may have been pleased to learn that "in time", Quandong fruits came into favour for jam and jelly, and the nuts were used for Chinese Checkers by a more recent generation. The Acacias became more noted for their tanning bark than for gum. 467 op.cit., p.137. - 114 - valuable...services of the aborigines, who accompanied the party...They could strip from a tree...a sheet of bark, large enough to form a canoe ...By this means alone, most of our effects were transported across broad rivers--without arg accident, even to any of my papers or dried plants .4°U Returning to Sydney in November, 1336, Mitchell paid a tribute to Richardsons "indefatigable industry." The Surveyor-General also referred to the "long service in the cause of science" of this "old man" 469 and in January 1837, a conditional pardon was granted. 470 Mitchell himself applied for leave, sailed for England in May 1837 to see his journals through the press, and did not return to Sydney until 1841. With his own Survey Department working on an emergency depression budget, Mitchell shortly had the additional frustration of seeing his old rival in the field once more -- a situation he quickly sought to match. However clearly the general drainage pattern of N.S.W. had emerged, the nature of the centre of the continent remained a mystery. Not only the plant and animal life of the antipodean continent presented quaint paradoxes, but even its geography did likewise. Sturt felt that the Murray, "noble river" though it was, "seemed to have been misplaced, through such an extent of desert did it pass..." 471 Sturt, who had destroyed Oxleys thesis of an inland sea, now held the view that the far interior of the continent, beyond the Darling, "was occupied by a sea of greater or less extents and very , probably by large tracts of desert country. " 472 This was surely a safe prediction in such a land of paradoxes. Having acquainted Lord Stanley and his old patron, Sir Ralph Darling with his plan, Sturt obtained permission to organize an expedition which included a gunsmith, Daniel Brock, as collector, and John Harris Browne as surgeon. 473 The armchair explorers in London made some modifications to Sturts proposals 474 but the advance party left Adelaide on 10 August 1844. as+mummiami. • 468 op.cit., II, p.336. 469 Richardson was then 39, and five years Mitchells junior. Apparently he was prematurely grey or stooped. 470 RABB Newsletter, No. 24. Apr. 1964, p.3, article by A. J. Gray. 471 C. Sturt: Narrative of an Eualitiarlinto Central Australiq...Lond., 1849, V01. I, p.12. 472 Sturt: op.cit., I, p.32. 473 The expedition comprised 16 men, 11 horses, 30 bullocks, boat and boat carriage, carts, drays, dogs and a flock of sheep. 474 Sturt: op.cit., I, pp.56-7. - 115 Sturt called at Moorundi to see Edward John Eyre, who accompanied the expedition along the Murray into New South Wales. 475 Sturt encountered a 476 "sea of scrub° comprising plants which were "chiefly salsolaceous, and "trees and shrubs of the usual kind, with "a good deal of spinifex" 477 and "oat-grass.° 478 The scene was in places happily relieved by "the amaryllis, then beautifully in flower". 479 Sturt had entered the shrub steppe of the blue-bush country around Lake Victoria. Leaving the Murray with its fine trees and grassy flats", Sturt followed the Anabranch, near which "there were sandy undulations covered with 480 stunted cypress trees or low brush", before following the Darling proper with its "box-tree flats" 461 and River Red Gums. On the Darling flats were found "numerous herbs, as spinach, indigofera, clover, etc. all indicative 482 of a better soil." Following the Darling through mulga and belah country towards Laidleys Ponds (Menindee) Sturt noted barren plans covered sparingly with salsolae 483 and atriplex484 A8 sandy rid es covere with stunted cyp- ress trees, J acaciae,406 hakeae4b7 and other similar shrubs via•■••••■••■■■■••■•••■•••■•••■■•••••••••■•••■ 475 Eyre would probably have led this expedition had Sturt been unable to dc so. Eyres own plan for exploring the centre provided for a surgeon and naturalist and a painter and botanist". Eyre to Stanley, 22 Aug. 1844, HRA, XXIV, pp. 51 et seq. 476 Sturt: op.cit., I, p.89. 477 Sturt: op.cit., I, p.95. Porcupine Grass or Spinifex, Triodia irritans 478 e.g. Theme_ da SD. 479 Murray or Darling Lily, Crinum flaccidum, Wilcannia Lily, Calostemma luteum or Garland Lily, C.Durpureum. 430 Callitris preissii. 481 Black Box, ,,the Gobero of Sir Thomas Mitchell" (Sturt). 482 Spinach or Warrigal Cabbage, Te- . a.)riia,-tetryonioides and T.eremaea; Indigofera, perhaps Incii. ic3-ofera. australis or swai.namaalzaaa; Clover-- hardly, at this stage Trifolium sp. or Medical sp. but probably Menindee Clover, Trionella uavissima or Austral Trefoil, Lotus australis. 483 either Rely Poly, Salsola kali or chenopodiaceous plants generally-- spp., Bassia spp., Kochia spp., etc. 484 Saltbush. 485 Callitris preissii. 486 e.g. Mulga, Acacia aneurai 487 e.g. Needlewood, — 116 — which "proved...that the productions of (the country) were as unchanged as x488 the soil. Sturt was still some 45 miles south of Laidleys Ponds when, on 1 October 1844 he noted Our specimens, both of natural history and botany, were as yet very scanty; but we found a new and beautiful shrub in blossom on some of the plains... 489 Crossing the mulga and saltbush country between Laidleys Ponds and "Stanleys Barrier Range", Sturt found a "good deal of grass" at first, "mixed with salsolaceous plants"; there were plains of "atriplex and rhagodiae", 49 ° with some trees including "a new species of casuarina" 491 and "a new species of caparis" (sic )\ . 492He also found the plant which is still associated with his name: we saw that beautiful flower the Clianthus formosa, in splendid blossom...It was growing midst barrenness and decay, but its long runners were covered with flowers that gave a crimson tint to the ground.493 At Parnari waterhole 494 there were some beautiful plants we had previously met with so few things that we might here be said to have commenced our collection.495 Proceeding north to Floods Creek, Sturt noted that "low bushes of rhagodia and atriplex were alone to be seen" at first, but later some "beautiful specimens of Solani and a few new plants." On the sand ridges were found pines, 496 "several very beautiful leguminous plants", hakeas and saltbushes. Reclimbing the Barrier Range, Sturt found clematis and jasmine. 497 At Floods Creek Sturt was pleased to see his stock up to their knees in luxuriant vegetation. We there found a native wheat, a beautiful oat, and a rye, as well as a variety of grasses; and in hollows on the 466 Sturt: Central Australia, I, p.119. 489 Sturt: op.cit., p.119. Sturt made many such general references whic are useless for determining species--e.g. "several species of very pretty and fragrant flowering shrubs" (p.149), "New" for Sturt, and other explorers, meant simply that he had not noticed it before; there is no scientific implication. 490 salsolaceous plants, rhagodia and atriplex, i.e. saltbushes. 491 Belah, Casuarina cristata or Bull Oak, C.luehmanni. 492 probably Wild Orange, Caas mitchelli, or Hepine, C.lasiantha. 493 Sturt: Central Australia, p.155. Sturts Desert Pea, Clianthus formosus. 494 on Stephens Creek, 13 miles from Broken Hill. 495 Sturt: op.cit., 1,11.165. 496 probably White Cypress, Callitris hu elii. 497 probably amati..... nicra....zph. 11a and Jasminum linear°. – 117 – CHARLES STURTS EXPEDITION OF 1844-186 STANLEYS BARRIER RANGE: Mulga, Acacia aneura and saltbush on the Barrier Range, nine miles east of Broken Hill.
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